History Anime / DeadLeaves

-->''"We the people, who are dedicated to protecting the common good, do hereby charge you with trespassing, theft, violence, assault, illegal possession of firearms, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a really crappy attitude!]] You are therefore sentenced to life imprisonment in the DL Correctional Facility on the moon."''

-->'''Retro''': "DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE VIOLENT!"
-->'''Retro''': "OH DEAR GOD, it's sucking my ASS!"

* CloningBlues: Being a clone without the "mutation gene cluster" makes an inmate exceptionally expendable. One inmate remarks:
--> "Oh well, even if we all died tomorrow, it's no big deal. There's still a whole 'nother batch of clones to take our place. ''C'est la vie.''"

* EroticEating: Pandy sure does love that hot dog...
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Warden.
* [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]]: Triple-Seven and Triple-Six are this to Pandy and Retro, personality-wise, as Triple-Seven is stoic and unemotional, yet ruthless like Pandy, while Triple-Six is energetic and maniacal, like Retro. Ironically Retro ends up fighting Triple-Seven while Pandy fights Triple-Six.

** Dub-only example: "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Let's make like a tree and get the hell out of here!]]"

* RapeAsComedy: Despite the fact that he wants to stick his drill-penis into [[AnythingThatMoves just about everyone and everything,]] regardless of its ability or willingness to consent, Chinko's behavior is typically portrayed as merely silly, as opposed to horrifying. But then again, [[BlackComedyRape that's probably the point.]]

This OVA shares a director with ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', ''Anime/KillLaKill'' and ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'''s fifth episode -- [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels which explains both very little and oh-so-much…]]

%%* ActionGirl: Pandy
%%* TheAlcatraz: Dead Leaves, supposedly.

-->'''Retro:''' "That thing around your eye makes you look like a panda bear!"
-->'''Pandy:''' "Yeah, well, that retro TV on your head makes ''you'' look like an asshole."

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The mutants, in general.

* BigGuyLittleGuy: Triple-Seven and Triple-Six, respectively.

%%* DaddyIssues: [[spoiler:The Warden]]
%%* DarkActionGirl: The Warden.

* FullFrontalAssault: [[InTheHood Apart from her cloak]], the Warden fights Pandy completely in the buff.

* ImmuneToBullets: Triple 6 and Triple 7.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Pandy and Retro have no memory of their past, but know how to get out of their straitjackets and handcuffs, and know their way around the prison.

* MoreDakka: The basis of several fight scenes, most obviously Retro vs. 777.

* [[NumberOfTheBeast The Number Of The Beast]]: 666 and his sidekick 777, [[ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac The Number Of The Moose]].

* [[ThePowerOfLove The Power Of Love(making)]]: Sex breaks Pandy and Retro out of their cell. No, really.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' serves as one to ''Dead Leaves''.

* SurprisePregnancy: Pandy starts getting morning sickness on the train, and doesn't know what's wrong with her. The doctor quickly clears up the situation and loudly boasts it to the train.

* ThisIsADrill: See GagPenis. [[{{Squick}} Ow.]]

* WorldOfHam [[WorldGoneMad Gone Mad]]: Well, it's actually the moon. Everyone there looks and acts insane and hams it up at every possible moment.

* OffModel: The visuals are extremely stylized and there is actually no model. Yes, even OffModel [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools can be good.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: Given the fact that both the citizens seen on earth as well as the policemen could potentially be clones, given that they're all identical in appearance aside from minute differences, with the police all being completely identical, and the only humans who were (presumably) naturally born instead of being cloned being Pandy, Retro, the Doctor, as well as the Warden and her father as well, it's unknown what happened to humanity to result in presumably replacing humanity with a bunch of clones and why, exactly they did it, as it could range from either being forced to do it due to some unknown crisis, or they did it for more sinister reasons, making humanity's status and fate up in the air.

--> "Oh well, even if we all died tomorrow, there's still a whole nother batch of clones to take our place. C'est la vie."

* CurseCutShort: "Now, move your asses, ya dumb f-"'''BANG'''

-->'''Retro''': "My ass! OH DEAR GOD, it's sucking my ASS!"

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* [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]]: Triple-Seven and Triple-Six are this to Pandy and Retro, personality-wise, as Triple-Seven is stoic and unemotional, yet ruthless like Pandy, while Triple-Six is eneregtic and maniacal, like Retro. Ironically Retro ends up fighting Triple-Seven while Pandy fights Triple-Six.

* DisneyDeath: Unlike the aforementioned inmates, [[spoiler:Retro]] does come back, though he subverts the trope by lacking a body upon return.

%%* EliteMooks: The robotic guards.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Triple-6 and Triple-7, who have been reduced to heads as noted by Retro. The two then fire back that he's just a head too. This is after Triple-6 and Triple-7 were blown to smitherines and shot to hell respectively.]]

V* DarkActionGirl: The Warden.

[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere One could describe]] ''Dead Leaves'' [[DescribeTopicHere here.]] Alternately, one could simply resort to pegging ''Dead Leaves'' as an unholy bastard child of ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs made after doing a rhinoceros-sized dose of super-distilled white china crack cocaine and LSD]].

* ActionGirl: Pandy
* TheAlcatraz: Dead Leaves, supposedly.

* [[spoiler:DaddyIssues: The Warden]]
* DarkActionGirl: The Warden.

* EliteMooks: The robotic guards.

[[DescribeTopicHere One could describe]] ''Dead Leaves'' [[DescribeTopicHere here.]] Alternately, one could simply resort to pegging ''Dead Leaves'' as an unholy bastard child of ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs made after doing a rhinoceros-sized dose of super-distilled white china crack cocaine and LSD]].

** Pandy exploits this by cracking the casing of a statue open and extracting a football sized cylinder - which she then jammed in to [[spoiler: 777]]'s torso and detonated.

* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:The Warden, Triple-6, and Triple-7 all get eaten by the giant space ceterpillar.]]

* JustDesserts: [[The Warden, Triple-6, and Triple-7 all get eaten by the giant space ceterpillar.]]

* DarkActionGirl: The Warden

* GagPenis: Chinko Drill, one of the inmates, has a large drill for a dick.

* TVHeadRobot: Retro.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:From what is shown from Pandy's flashback, the women who inherited the title of the warden from her father was a sweet, friendly child who Pandy used to read to. By the present in the OVA, she's shown to have become a monstrous sadist.]]

* CastOfSnowflakes: All the characters, outside of the citizens, policemen, and robot minions are all completely distinct and recognizable from one another. It helps that a lot of the characters are mutants who all have inhumane features.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: The citizens on earth and the police officers may or may not be clones, given how all of them are physically identical with only minute differences, not to mention that the Dead Leaves prison facility doubles as a top secret cloning facility. It doesn't help that the cops also shown working as guards on the Dead Leaves facility.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: The citizens on earth and the police officers, due to them all being completely identical, not to mention that the Dead Leaves prison facility also has a cloning lab.

* MauveShirt: Chinko Drill, as well as a few other inmates, get enough characterization to become endearing.

* RedOniBlueOni: Retro and Pandy themselves. Retro is wildly emotional and tends to shout a lot while Pandy constantly has a calm, focused face and speaks in a focused tone without raising her voice. Triple-Six and Triple-Seven are this as well, with Triple-Seven even being blue.